The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 65
When she arrived the Fairy, who loved the Princess, told her that she knew all she had come to say, but that she need have no fear, for nothing would harm her if only she faithfully fulfilled the Fairy's injunctions. "
Who acts: Princess, Fairy, nothing · What happens: arrive, love, tell, know, come, say · To what, where: Fairy, Princess, fear, injunctions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Fairy, nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 loved | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | ccomp |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 say | mark |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 need | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 need | nsubj |
| 27 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | advcl |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 fear | det |
| 30 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 harm | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 harm | mark |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 harm | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 harm | aux |
| 35 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 have | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 harm | obj |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 fulfilled | mark |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 fulfilled | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 40 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 41 fulfilled | advmod |
| 41 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 harm | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Fairy | det |
| 43 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 injunctions | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 Fairy | case |
| 45 | injunctions | injunction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fulfilled | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Princess | the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | the Fairy | the Princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | past | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | Princess | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | need | present | Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | have | present | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||||
| 9 | harm | would | nothing | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 10 | fulfil a condition, not said to happen | past | Princess | the Fairy's injunctions | faithfully property | tree rules | |||
| 11 | enjoin | the Fairy | nom injunction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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